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		Flimm on March 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What’s New In Python 3.3 The os module now has a new function: pipe2. Is there a reason why they didn't give it a better name, like pipe_with_flags?

wulczer on March 5, 2012 | [–]

The underlying syscall and libc function are called pipe2.

thristian on March 5, 2012 | [–]

I'm guessing it's named after the underlying POSIX function pipe2().

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